Disgraced carpenter’s union shop steward Michael Brennan was slammed with a five years prison sentence today, despite his shaky-voiced apology to a judge.

“I will strive through acts of contrition to help those less fortunate,” Brennan, 54, the former shop steward of the carpenters union Local 608, groveled to Manhattan Federal Judge Victor Marrero today. “I beg for forgiveness. I stand before you a broken man.”

Brennan, who must surrender to U.S. Marshalls on Feb. 7, has admitted to racketeering after he was accused of embezzling union funds, taking bribes to let contractors hire illegal aliens, and destroying documents as investigators closed in. In addition to his prison time he must pay back $100,000.

He was part of the larger racketeering and bribery scandal that led to the downfall of the coke-snorting ex-chief of District Council of Carpenters, Michael Forde, who has himself been sentenced to 11 years prison for heading a 15-year corruption scheme in which he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from contractors seeking to hire illegal aliens.